[openstack-dev] [tempest][infra][congress] subprocess launched in tempest test lacks file permission

Eric K ekcs.openstack at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 17:08:43 UTC 2017


Thanks for your help and sketch of solution, Andrea!  -Eric

From:  Andrea Frittoli <andrea.frittoli at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
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Date:  Friday, July 28, 2017 at 9:03 AM
To:  "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
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Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [tempest][infra][congress] subprocess launched
in tempest test lacks file permission

> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:38 AM Eric K <ekcs.openstack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A tempest test [1] launches additional instances of Congress using
>> subprocess.popen and tests the coordination between them and the original
>> instance launched by devstack. The problem is, the new instances are
>> launched from the tempest test user rather than the user of the original
>> congress instance devstack created. As a result, the new instances fail
>> for being unable to access the encryption keys created by the original
>> congress instance (600 permission).[2]
>> 
>> Any suggestions for how to workaround this problem? Is it possible to
>> somehow configure the gate job to run tempest tests as SU or as the
>> stackuser that launches the original congress instance? Thanks so much!
> 
> Unfortunately we don't have any facility in Tempest to control the user for
> subprocesses since Tempest is meant for API testing only. Starting a
> subprocess within the test sounds a bit outside of the scope of what you
> may want to do in a Tempest test.
>  
> If you want to use Tempest to verify HA type of scenarios you may want
> to move the orchestration bit outside of Tempest - you could have an ansible
> script that manages your services and run Tempest before and after certain
> actions to verify that things are still working.
> 
> If you want tests to run in parallel to things happening to your system you
> can do that but again you will need an external component to orchestrate
> this, and you don't know what kind of tempest test will be running unless
> you use a single long running scenario test designed for this purpose.
> 
> Andrea Frittoli (andreaf)
> 
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/openstack/congress/blob/master/congress_tempest_tests/te
>> sts/scenario/congress_ha/test_ha.py.disabled#L117
>> <https://github.com/openstack/congress/blob/master/congress_tempest_tests/tes
>> ts/scenario/congress_ha/test_ha.py.disabled#L117>  (currently disabled,
>> trying to re-enable)
>> 
>> [2]
>> http://logs.openstack.org/35/487235/5/check/gate-congress-dsvm-api-mysql-ub
>> untu-xenial/607623d/logs/testr_results.html.gz
>> <http://logs.openstack.org/35/487235/5/check/gate-congress-dsvm-api-mysql-ubu
>> ntu-xenial/607623d/logs/testr_results.html.gz>  (find: OSError: [Errno 13]
>> Permission denied: '/etc/congress/keys/aes_key¹)
>> 
>> 
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